Simon Rogers drops in to discuss his latest book 'What We Ask Google', available May 5, 2026

Simon is Google’s Data Editor, leading a team of data journalists, analysts, and visualizers to tell stories with Google’s data.

Previously, he was Twitter’s first ever Data Editor, and he is also the author of Facts Are Sacred, based on the Guardian’s Datablog which he helped launch.

A lecturer in Data Journalism at Medill-Northwestern University in San Francisco, he has received the Royal Statistical Society’s award for statistical excellence in journalism. He lives with this family in San Francisco.